During the pandemic, anxieties about math instruction have grown. Fueling them is the most recent results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which showed historical losses in ...

Move over, girl dinner — it's time for girl math. The latest discourse to hit the social media platform revolves around spending, consumerism and and economics, both real and imagined. In videos, ...

You pay for a latte with money from your Starbucks app, so your bank account balance doesn’t change. That means the coffee was basically free, right? This is just one example of “girl math,” a trend ...

BALTIMORE -- A new personal finance trend has TikTok users recommending humorous new ways to rethink their spending habits. We've all justified unnecessary purchases before, but now social media has ...

A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

From the TikTok feeds that brought you girl dinner comes girl math: a strategy for justifying large or unnecessary purchases. The calculations behind girl math aren't new, but the way we talk about ...

Math education is rapidly changing. And while there are real headwinds with respect to math achievement, the new ideas and curricula that are emerging have the potential to power real progress for ...

A while ago, I got interested in mathematics, mostly because I had done so poorly at it in school. I’m being coy. I didn’t do poorly; I pretty much failed. I only passed by cheating. Anyway, I bought ...

A recent article in The Cut that described the keeping-up-with-the-Joneses anxiety that the FX/Hulu series Fleishman is in Trouble is inducing in a certain milieu of upper-middle-class parents let ...

No matter the age, there's one school subject that just doesn't add up for many people, and trying to solve it can bring nerves and even fear. Balancing weights, measuring steps and stacking blocks ...

College can be thrilling, demanding, and unpredictable. The need for mathematics is one item that always surprises pupils. Many others share your question about the math courses needed in college.

When elementary school students in her district struggle in math, Elizabeth Abel wants to get them support as soon as possible. That’s because addressing students’ gaps in kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd ...